Bible Covers

If your well used Bible is falling apart, have a new cover built for it, stretched in durable leather with copper embellishment, or any Custom Design of your choice. Brand new Bibles may also be used.

Store bought and mass-produced Bibles consist of ‘Bonded Leather'. This inferior product is composed of tiny leather particles pressed together, which rips and falls apart easily. I use solid leather, archival glue, plus two layers of 55 lb. tensile strength fabric to reinforce the spine & hinges.

•   I completely remove the old cover from your Bible and construct a brand new hard cover.

•  Decorative Binding Cords are applied to the spine.
  
•  Archival, permanently flexible bookbinding glue reinforces the spine to ensure that it will not crack over time with continued bending (as poor quality or old books often do).
  
•  Two layers of 55 pound tensile strength fabric reinforce the cover hinges, both under the leather and under the endsheets to ensure optimum durability.
  
•  A Cross is hand cut from copper or brushed aluminum. Optional patina is applied to copper crosses. The Cross is then wired directly through the cover for firm attachment.
  
•  Built-in bookmark options: One single leather bookmark, or several attached ribbons instead.
  
•  Your Bible will be completed with handmade papers for coversheets.
•  Handstitched Headbands are optional. These leather cords are stitched directly onto the spine ends, wrapped with colorful threads. They add extra durability to the spine, protect the edges, and accent the coversheet colors. Add $30 for this option. View Steps 15-18 on the Binding Process page for more information and photos about headbands.
  
•  Some page restoration or rebinding is possible. Price to be determined upon examination of the Bible.
  
•  I am happy to order a brand new sewn Bible for you, on which I will create a custom leather cover. Or you may send your own new or used Bible. A used Bible will usually include an approximate $35 refurbishment fee for removal of old glue to prepare the Bible for a new archival cover.
•  Signature sewn Bibles are most suitable for recovering (where pages are folded in half and sewn together). Bibles composed of single pages just glued together (unsewn) have weak structural integrity. However, if you are attached to your unsewn Bible, I offer a Japanese binding technique to reinforce the internal structure. The stitching will add the binding strength needed to appropriately accommodate a new cover. This option is $50.

Standard Copper Cross Bible

The Standard Cross design is $225 on a 5" x 7" Bible Cover.

Custom Leather Bible Covers are also available. Examples seen below.

Additional images of Custom Bible Covers are posted on the last pages of 'Custom Designs'.

Custom Celtic Cross
$385

“I want to take this earliest opportunity to express my absolute delight with your restoration and binding of the King James Version of the family Bible. Your work combines a most commendable bookmanlike respect for restoration of traditional (and religious) binding, while your artistry is expressed with an understated, quiet finesse and restraint. This is a truly rare talent. The embroidered headbands are the finest I’ve ever seen, and this includes the hand bookbinding in the U.K. and Ireland, among my collection.”

- Frederick Cross - Overland Park, KS

Custom Celtic Cross on Large Bible
$625

Custom Methodist Cross Leather Bible
$230

Custom Sunflower Bible
$390

Custom Leather Bible with Initials
$265

Custom Copper Vine Bible
$415

Custom Pink Leather Bible with Copper Cross
$245

Celtic Cross Custom Bible with Name
$460

Custom Leather Military Bible with Crest
$330

Custom Palm Tree Bible
$375

Chinese Cherry Blossom Custom Bible
$515

Garden Gate Mini Bible
$335

Bible with Hinged Door
$685

Native American Bible
$267

Custom Copper Celtic Cross Bible with Florettes
$395

Custom Cross Bible
$245

Standard Cross Custom Bible with Name
$420

Soft Covered Large Bible
$384

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